Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2003, 4:06 AM EDT for Hardin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 2003, 4:06 AM EDT (08:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2003, 4:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hardin County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 12:20 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
983 WFUS53 KLMK 110806 TORLMK KYC093-110830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 405 AM EDT SUN MAY 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEAST HARDIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 430 AM EDT * AT 359 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NORTHEAST OF RINEYVILLE...OR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... COLESBURG AROUND 410 AM EDT THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3776 8601 3762 8589 3773 8572 3784 8581 $$ DENMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 41 min |
| May 11, 2:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson | 23 min |
| May 11, 3:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 42 min |
| May 11, 3:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 29 min |
| May 11, 3:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 32 min |
| May 11, 3:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry | 26 min |
| May 11, 4:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 31 min |
| May 11, 4:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Nelson | 45 min |
| May 11, 4:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue | 25 min |
| May 11, 4:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Hart | 42 min |
| May 11, 4:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 32 min |
| May 11, 4:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hart | 36 min |
| May 11, 5:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 13 min |
| May 11, 5:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Marion, Taylor | 40 min |
| May 11, 5:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer | 28 min |
| May 11, 5:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 41 min |
| May 11, 5:27 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Mercer | 18 min |
| May 11, 5:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 34 min |
| May 11, 5:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jessamine | 30 min |
| May 11, 5:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 36 min |
| May 11, 6:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 34 min |
| May 11, 6:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Madison | 37 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.